Catalogue description Hetton United Methodist Circuit

This record is held by Tyne and Wear Archives

Details of MC.He2
Reference: MC.He2
Title: Hetton United Methodist Circuit
Date: 1874-1928
Held by: Tyne and Wear Archives, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Hetton United Methodist Circuit

Physical description: 2 series + 1 file
Immediate source of acquisition:

Accession 1097 (part)

Subjects:
  • Hetton, County Durham
  • Religion
Administrative / biographical background:

This was formerly the North Durham Mission of the Bible Christians, established in 1874. Many different congregations were included in it from time to time, but some were short-lived. In 1882 the Circuit included Seaham Harbour, Murton Colliery, New Herrington, Wingate Colliery, Hetton, Wheatley Hill, Haswell, Silksworth, Cramlington, Houghton le Spring, Shankhouse and South Terrace. However, by 1892 the constituent congregations had radically altered, now including Sunderland, Murton, New Herrington, Wingate, Hetton, Haswell, Trimdon, Station Town and Wheatley Hill. By 1906 the number had further declined to just Murton, Wingate, Haswell and Station Town.

 

The following year the Bible Christians merged with the Methodist New Connexion and the United Methodist Free Churches to form the United Methodist Church. This resulted in a reorganisation of the North Durham Mission to form the Hetton United Methodist Circuit, which contained only 2 congregations consistently throughout its life - Murton and Easington Lane.

 

In 1932 the United Methodists joined with the Primitive Methodists and the Wesleyan Methodists to form the Methodist Church of Great Britain, and the Hetton U.M. Circuit ceased to exist. The churches within it were absorbed into the Houghton le Spring or Hetton Methodist Circuits. See MC.HS1 and MC.Hel.

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